Durch die zunehmende Verlagerung der Kreditbeantragung ins Internet stehen potentielle Kreditnehmer häufiger vor der Herausforderung, den komplexen Kreditentscheidungsprozess ohne persönliche Beratung absolvieren zu müssen. Dieser stellt jedoch hohe Anforderungen an das Finanzwissen und die...

This paper develops a methodology for estimating the parameters of dynamic opinion or expectation formation processes with social interactions. We study a simple stochastic framework of a collective process of opinion formation by a group of agents who face a binary decision problem. The...

This chapter reviews recent research adopting methods from statistical physics in theoretical or empirical work in economics and finance. The bulk of what has recently become known as 'econophysics' in broader circles draws its motivation from observed scaling laws in financial markets and the...

High-frequency financial data are characterized by a set of ubiquitous statistical properties that prevail with surprising uniformity. While these 'stylized facts' have been well-known for decades, attempts at their behavioral explanation have remained scarce. However, recently a new branch of...